Apparatus for monitoring movement of a person's eye, e.g., to monitor
drowsiness. The system includes a frame that is worn on a person's head,
an array of emitters on the frame for directing light towards the person's
eye, and an array of sensors on the frame for detecting light from the
array of emitters. The sensors detect light that is reflected off of
respective portions of the eye or its eyelid, thereby producing output
signals indicating when the respective portions of the eye is covered by
the eyelid. The emitters project a reference frame towards the eye, and a
camera on the frame monitors movement of the eye relative to the reference
frame. This movement may be correlated with the signals from the array of
sensors and/or with signals from other sensors on the frame to monitor the
person's level of drowsiness.